Category: Spirituality
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Shiva dancing…
Living in these troubled times, my thinking mind wants to make sense of things, fight for and protect its beliefs… …but, in introspection, “Shiva dancing” is what popped into my mind. I love the Hindu religious traditions, and regrettably, I am familiar with only the big overview – Brahman, the ultimate reality of the universe,…
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Ode to Ego
(Probably more correctly, “Odious Ego” 🙂 ) This morning I ran a ten words writing exercise (briefly – write ten words that “bubble up” without intentionally thinking about them, write a sentence that “bubbles up” for each word, and then look for threads which pull the sentences together). Today’s exercise clearly spoke of the ego,…
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Holiness…
In a meditation, holiness came to mind. The image was of Mother Mary, but as a pillar of light with a hint of an iridescent blue shawl. As she and I walked through a village, the appearance of bodies disappeared as the pillars of light inside each body began to shine with increasing brightness. And…
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Give to have, teach to learn…
One of the challenges I experience in my search for truth is the very human desires of having and doing, how to occupy time. A Course in Miracles suggests helpfully, give to have, teach to learn. Behind those simple instructions is the wisdom teaching that, in this experience, it is the “being-ness” which sparks the…
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The Lion and the Mouse, revised
I often wonder why certain images come to mind, but I found this little story that came to me interesting. It’s a conflation of Androcles and the Lion and Aesop’s The Lion and the Mouse, but with a different focus and moral to the story. 🙂 A beautiful, kingly lion is surveying his domain, majestically…
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There is another way to see this…
The news…the “news” (I put it in scare quotes because I often feel it’s being used to persuade instead of inform 🙂 ), always inspires a lot of Course in Miracles work. The tenet, there is another way to see this, popped up today, along with a lot of teachings about perception and projection. A…
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A humorous look back, look forward 🙂
Sometimes, you just got to laugh… The subconscious or unconscious level can be brutally honest, and humorous, too! This exercise has two different but related pieces: She seemed to be having a fruitful conversation with herselfShe was always “special” in the wink-wink wayHer demeanor politely described as other-worldlyAlways longing for some reconciliationBut she was totally…
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A new “lens” on reality?
It’s fascinating, at least to me, to “listen” to the subconscious/unconscious level to get some insight into what we’re experiencing on a conscious level. This was the writing part: How wonderful to be certain of functionWhat power in purposeConquering fear the final frontierWhat does salvation mean? Queasy as the foundation give wayCrumbling a fundamental fallacy…
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The Castle in the High Clouds
Today’s introspection produced interesting insights. I enjoy using the “10 words” tool I’ve mentioned before as a means to get a glimpse of the inner consciousness levels, to rummage around in there a bit. Today’s 10 words cam up: castle rock fortress pumpkin altogether altruism phony correspondent functional nonsense …and here’s the “story” that came…
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What is vision?
Trying to contemplate lessons from A Course in Miracles – that, obscured by the dark imaginings of ego, there is light, which is reality – set my mind down the path, if the body’s eyes don’t see, what is vision? In the “ten words” exercise, here’s what came up: (the ten words – light, joy,…
